CEO summit Uganda is where growth-oriented corporates challenge, effectuate and expound transformation. It is a platform that uniquely gathers the most influential CEOs, bankers, and investors in the region. It is a private think tank fluent in solutions, through its Annual CEO Forum and the sector-specific CEO Cluster teams. In 2020, Patricia Kahill a multipotentialite,…
Alternative marketing, the death of cookies
It is important for all businesses to review how they are harnessing the marketing trends so they can apply the latest innovations through the 70:20:10 rule of marketing focus. The rule has it that 70% of the time we focus on things that are very core to our business, 20% is where we are trying…
Upskilling for shared prosperity in Uganda
Upskilling for Shared Prosperity is a call to action. It makes the economic case for providing employees with learning and development opportunities to expand their horizons while minimizing skills gaps. Due to the disconnect between current education programs and the skills employers, the need today and the future to look at upskilling as an advantage to…
Keep the Faith
So many things about our lives right now may seem like they are completely out of our control. Life is suddenly full of questions. What was once normal, has been turned upside down by an unexpected deaths, diagnosis, lost jobs, a financial crisis in your home or business, a challenging education plan, the elimination of…
What is Opportunity Tracker?
When this was first mentioned to me I was like this must be something that measures the available opportunities on the market over the available seekers for them and gives a ratio for it. For who is nowadays journeying on conversions and their impact mainly in my digital marketing work, this was the best-fit answer…
On Creating a Remote Working Model for a Company
For 8 years now, I have been running a digital marketing agency called Kahill Insights Company limited (K.I) that focuses on creating engaging and interactive content items that return on clients’ desired outcomes and investments. I started this company out of pure passion and curiosity for how digital platforms connect, market, and build relationships that…
How Togikwatako and Gikwateko are affecting my business
Togikwatako is a Luganda word meaning ‘Don’t touch it’, this word has been used by opposition leaders who are against the bid to amend Article 102(b) of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda that seeks to lift the Presidential Age limit, while Gikwateko, meaning ‘let’s touch it’ is for in support of the amendment. These two…
Let’s award Integrity in the Accounts Departments
Integrity is an important fundamental element of the accounting profession. Integrity requires accountants to be honest, candid and forthright with a client and financial information. Accountants are required to restrict themselves from personal gain or advantage using confidential information. While errors or differences in opinion regarding the applicability of accounting laws do exist, professional accountants…
The New Year’s Eve celebrations that I miss
Preparation were done three days before the actual night of New Year’s Eve. We gathered and drew plans for the night; what was needed, the routes for the activities, duties assigned and targets acquired. Items needed included Tyres, Cypress Christmas trees – these were the ones hanging in our sitting rooms waiting for this particular…
#52 Unidentified bodies in Kasese and an easy target from Teso
There are #52 Unidentified bodies being buried by the military on behalf of a people who woke up one morning to go and be of service to their king. Meanwhile, the name of a commander from Teso is being projected, thanks to a media house as “the one” who bombed the palace. And the same…
Another Take of Queen Katwe by an English Man with a Ugandan Touch Part 1
This is the part one series of blog posts by Guest Blogger Micheal Harkin who is of English citizenship, sharing his thoughts and insights after watching the Queen of Katwe movie. My late wife came from a poor Ugandan family. They live in a not very nice part of Bukoto. All that mattered to me…
#UgBlogWeek Day5: Politics in School
People don’t like the truth, they prefer the lies that look like hope, and promises that will never witness the light of day.
#UgBlogWeek Day1: School
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson – Tom Bodett
HIV/AIDS funding threatened!
Do you know that there a Global funding shortages for HIV/AIDS? Or that there are challenges threatening ensuring treatment delays in some parts of the global? Or what these delays means to the new recommendations that all HIV patients begin antiretroviral drug therapy as soon as they are diagnosed. Access to lifesaving antiretroviral therapy is…
Boda Boda Hurry Up…. Dies!
It is your life and your body, no one will protect it for you but you!
#PKTechWeekly Orange bought Airtel, 100 Millions WhatsApp Calls, Rise in Mobile Money users,
#PKTechWeekly of 20th -26th june
Setting The Record Straight; On Anisha & Gimmicks
Calls came in with worries about how that was not good for my image or my company’s. Even mother who had only known about my #FreeSamwyri tweets received a link to the blog. ‘Put your beautiful pictures back on your pages’, She said. I was not and still not bothered, I like my black avi.…
#PkTechWeekly; Huawei, Technology for TB treatment
Because of #FreeSamwyri, #PKTechWeekly for 22nd to 28th May comes to you late.
Do you know about the case before a Federal Judge in Springfield, Mass. USA about Freedom of Ugandans? #UgBlogWeek
Do you know about 2012 lawsuit against an American activist by a Ugandan organization?
#UgBlogWeek: God and Freedom of Expression
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).